Can you imagine abstracting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to its "essential" tones? Is it abstract or classical art which reveals what people think and feel about their life and death, sorrows and joys?

Covering a mountainside with polyethylene, just to be modern, to be different, to me is not art, for it is not a contribution to our human welfare. Painting the African desert sand purple is not only a waste of effort and money but also poisons the environment.

Machines have been introduced in art to design a project or to computerize a design. The "creativity" done by machines, no matter how intricate and "superior" it may look, is impersonal and alienating, and is more harmful than one can imagine.

When machines take the place of manual skill, the latter suffers a loss of status. Machines have lessened the status of the human being in general and the individual worker in particular.

Machines have led to mass-production, which has created the mass-culture, which depersonalizes people. Human skills lie dormant because of automation. Instead of providing us with solutions and enhancing our well being, many innovations created by technology supply us with new hosts of problems.

THE FRASER RIVER This is a group sculpture consisting of three parts. Part one portrays the north course of the river - fresh, strong, and unpolluted. Part two shows the middle course of the river - agriculturally fertile and abundant in human resources. Part three depicts the delta, represented by marine activities and fishing.



STRUGGLE FOR IDENTITY I This sculpture symbolizes the crisis of the city dweller. It represents the attempt to retain human values within the confines of urban walls and towers.

Political and social injustice and responsibility are also subjects of my sculptures. These works illustrate a conflict in a particular individual's situation, the way an individual deals with this conflict and overcomes it, or how and why she or he fails to do so. These sculptures provide a clear perception resulting from concentrated analysis of the conflict between the wishes of the individual and demands made upon her or him by religion, state, society and her or his own values.



I have had many goals as a sculptor but my main goal is to have an impact on the individual and thus on society. Therefore I have to be concerned with human issues such as the alienation of the individual.

WHY This sculpture was initiated by the tragedy of the Kent State University shootings of students by National Guardsmen. It shows a young man in his death throes after being shot. The figure is a symbolic reminder of the outrage and evokes the terrifying reality of a fatally wounded student's last query: Why?



THE COLORADIAN This sculpture expresses the problem of modern man facing an uncertain future. The sculpture portrays a young draft dodger reflecting on his decision and the consequences of not fighting in the Vietnam War.